About Leweston

Leweston is probably a farm belonging to a man called Leofwig, from the Old English tun + a personal name.

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Leweston is an extra-parochial liberty, separated from Lillington by a ridge. Leweston Manor has been home to many notable residents, such as the Fitzjames family.

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Holnest & Lillington & Leweston

Population 401 persons in 110 households.

(Source: Nov. 2021 Dorset Council - Insights. Due to low numbers, the data for these parishes have been combined.)

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Leweston School

The school grounds currently occupy 46 acres. The main school building is a Palladian manor house built in the late eighteenth century although the oldest part of the estate is Holy Trinity Chapel, one of the first post-Reformation churches, containing several monuments to former occupants of the Manor. The Chapel of the Holy Trinity is a Grade I listed building.

The first owner during the 20th century, in 1906, was George Hamilton Fletcher of the White Star shipping line who sold the property to Eric Hamilton Rose in the 1920s. Rose dubbed it Leweston Manor. He and his wife Rosamond arranged for major renovations to be completed. It was sold in 1948 to the nuns of St Antony's School. It has since remained a school, renamed Leweston School in 2007.

See Leweston School

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Church

Chapel of the Holy Trinity (part of Leweston School).

Dorset Churches website: Dorset Churches - Leweston

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Listed Buildings

There is 1 x Grade I listed building (Chapel of the Holy Trinity) and 11 x Grade II buildings.

British Listed Buildings website: British Listed Buildings - Leweston

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